Replacing Chipset heatsinks

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Andrew Guilfoy

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Hey guys,

New on the forum here, yet I do visit often for already answered questions. Not sure if this has been answered before. It may be a little silly, but wondering what anyones take is on some of the tacky heatsinks manufacturers put on their motherboards. Right now I'm looking at the EVGA X79 Dark. I really love everything about the board, PCB color, ram slots, features, bios. I am trying to build a sweet looking all black build. It has negative reviews, but I never try to focus on those. I've gone EVGA before and was not let down at all. The only thing I hate is the huge "E" chipset heat sink as well as the red/black vrm heatsink theme EVERY MB manufacturer seems to be doing today. Wondering if I could simply pop the chipset heatsink off and the VRM/MOSFET heat sinks, and replace them with something a little more contemporary. Maybe something all black? Frozen CPU has a number of basic heatsinks that attach via 3M Thermal adhesive, and I was wondering if this would be sufficient? I MIGHT over clock, but for now I am using the machine as an audio rig and very light gaming rig and do not mind keeping it at its base clock.

Another board was the MSI Big Bang II, That board would look absolutely sweet, if not for the absolutely worse than the EVGA Reviews, and reports of so many DOA boards. I would have taken that one apart, pulled those stupid bullets off and tried it with that.

SO what is your take on replacing the stock heatsinks to make these boards look a little more generic/plain black?

Thanks in advance!

- Andrew
 
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Welcome to Tom'sHardware, Andrew;

There area couple of things wrong with your post that I felt I'd need to clear up for you.
1| If your machine is meant for audio creation or encoding and will be for light gaming, then a beefy X79 mobo isn't the board you should be looking at for a build. Mainstream boards like the Z97 or lower chipsets like the B85 would fit the bill.
2| Following up, you can look into the Black Series of mobo's from Gigabyte if you're looking for an all black board and ofc there are boards lower down the order that don't have a heatsink but yet have black PCB.
3| Heatsinks were provided stock from the factory/company for a reason and if you remove them its because you are moving a step(or more) above them. Removing...
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hi
whats for certain is heat sinks on mainboard are specially designed for it and you might be able to remove it simply but its not so easy to find exaclly same.
but there are some solutions such as water cooling pads
althouth , if i ware you i prefer to color it my self ! with many options in different kind of colors
anyway i think its better dont mess with mainboard heat sinks specially when you are kinda OC
 
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Welcome to Tom'sHardware, Andrew;

There area couple of things wrong with your post that I felt I'd need to clear up for you.
1| If your machine is meant for audio creation or encoding and will be for light gaming, then a beefy X79 mobo isn't the board you should be looking at for a build. Mainstream boards like the Z97 or lower chipsets like the B85 would fit the bill.
2| Following up, you can look into the Black Series of mobo's from Gigabyte if you're looking for an all black board and ofc there are boards lower down the order that don't have a heatsink but yet have black PCB.
3| Heatsinks were provided stock from the factory/company for a reason and if you remove them its because you are moving a step(or more) above them. Removing heatsinks to leave the VRM/mosfets exposed isn't a wise idea. Anyone removing them would be going full cover mobo watercooling.

Hope that puts your doubts to rest
:)
 
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Andrew Guilfoy

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Do you think it would be a waste going x79? vs say z97? I haven't used a quad since, well.. my macbook pro has a 2nd gen quad, I used to have a 2600k, which I used to record with.. But the 4th gens seem to double up on them. I always seems to get tied in the more cores over quicker cores debate.. I think my main concern is most of the audio programs, like protools which I use are built to optimize all the cores. I like the idea of no limits when Im making something that way I don't get disappointed when they mix gets "too big". :)
 
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